serfage
Example Sentences
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Tendency toward serfage in the Code of 1705.
From The Middle Period 1817-1858 by John William Burgess
A crowd of rustics, maddened at the thought of revived claims of serfage, of interminable suits of law, poured into the streets of the town.
From History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 by John Richard Green
Cancel charters of manumission as the council might, serfage was henceforth a doomed and perishing thing.
From History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 by John Richard Green
The story of St. Edmundsbury shows how gradual was the transition from pure serfage to an imperfect freedom.
From History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 by John Richard Green
Christianity finding men in serfage and degraded all over the earth, had arisen on the fall of the Roman Empire, like a mighty vengeance, though under the aspect of a resignation.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde
